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Case research · C020
Tufano v. Reddit Inc
2025-06513 · Lackawanna County
Pending; Consolidated Order (2026-04-21) denied venue-transfer motion; Motion for Default Judgment (2025-12-08) and Request for Order to Show Cause (2026-06-16) still pendingPennsylvania
CourtLackawanna County
FiledAugust 13, 2025
StatusPending; Consolidated Order (2026-04-21) denied venue-transfer motion; Motion for Default Judgment (2025-12-08) and Request for Order to Show Cause (2026-06-16) still pending
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JurisdictionPennsylvania
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Transferred case—
Last researchedSeptember 23, 2026
About this case
Evidentiary treatment: This summarizes the plaintiff's own allegations as stated in the complaint or docket record cited below. It reflects what was filed, not a court finding, and is not a determination that the allegations are true.
Plaintiff alleges Reddit, Inc. defamed him (42 Pa.C.S. Sec. 8343). He claims Reddit banned him from the platform to protect "corporate-hired" content creators from competing with his original work, and that a subreddit ("r/franktufano," not created by him) hosts numerous slanderous posts about him — several quoted directly in the complaint, including a mocking post about his Wifi Shield product and posts describing his interactions with female YouTubers as threatening. The complaint frames this as an organized "hate campaign." Money damages are requested (outside arbitration limits); the exact figure sought is on a later page not reached this session.
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Research status: Source-backed (direct LPA portal docket + case detail); federal complaint comparison still pending
Research notes: A separate original federal Reddit complaint, C056 (3:25-cv-01495), was filed the same day, Aug. 13, 2025. The federal docket's Filing 1 is a COMPLAINT, not a Notice of Removal. Direct review of the 39-page Verified Complaint (pp.1-12 read) confirms a Defamation of Character claim under 42 Pa.C.S. Sec. 8343 against Reddit, alleging the subreddit r/franktufano hosts defamatory posts about him and that Reddit banned him to favor other content creators; the exact prayer-for-relief amount was not reached (viewer degraded past page 12). A Consolidated Order dated 2026-04-21 (James A. Gibbons, P.J.) denied Tufano's Motion to Transfer Venue in this case alongside two others (2025-CV-3928 and C024/2025-CV-9609), finding no plaintiff-initiated transfer mechanism exists and that the motions did not reflect proper service; recorded separately as a court finding. The case remains open -- a Request for Order to Show Cause was filed 2026-06-16, after the order.
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Motion to Transfer Venue denied (Order)
Court order / opinionApril 21, 2026
Consolidated order ruling on three of Tufano's Motions to Transfer Venue at once, all filed 2026-04-14 and each seeking transfer to the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania: case nos. 2025-CV-3928 (C008), 2025-CV-6513 (this case), and 2025-CV-9609 (C024). The order finds the motions "do not reflect proper service on any of the defendants" and that the court found "no mechanism by which a plaintiff may accomplish such a 'transfer.'" All three motions were DENIED.
Strength labels are research classifications, not judicial declarations that the litigant is vexatious.
ModerateConcurrent same-day state complaint filed against same core defendant as new federal action
C020 (Lackawanna County) was filed the same day, Aug. 13, 2025, as the original federal complaint C056, both against Reddit, Inc. and both roughly 8 months after C044 was dismissed with an appeal-frivolous finding. C020 remains open with active motion practice (Motion for Default Judgment filed 2025-12-08; Request for Order to Show Cause 2026-06-16).
No adjudication in C020 itself; direct review of the 39-page Verified Complaint confirms a Defamation of Character claim (42 Pa.C.S. Sec. 8343) against Reddit, Inc.
Sequence does not by itself prove motive or causation.
Concurrent same-day complaint filed (state court)
The same day, Tufano filed a Lackawanna County state complaint (C020) against Reddit, Inc. Direct review of the 39-page Verified Complaint confirms a Defamation of Character claim under 42 Pa.C.S. Sec. 8343, alleging the subreddit r/franktufano hosts defamatory posts and that Reddit banned him to favor other creators.
Tufano filed C029 in Lackawanna County against Reddit, Inc., ByteDance/TikTok, Lavely & Singer PC, and Dr. Mehryar Ray Taban, roughly 5 months after C020/C056. C029's own Verified Complaint references companion case 2025-06513 (C020). No docket activity has occurred since the original filing.
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Strong pattern relevanceRepeat filing on the same disputeFiling after an adverse decisionThreatened or prospective filingJudicial or forum bias alleged00:49
And I've submitted uh forms to Reddit to get this taken down. But hey, this is uh I guess another excuse for me to file a lawsuit, right? I did file a federal lawsuit against Reddit once. Uh the corrupt federal judge just dismissed it. So I guess we'll have to file some fresh paperwork to the state court. And uh this whole subreddit definitely gave me some ammunition to do [that].
This is the most on-point statement for the site's subject matter located anywhere in this research. In one breath he (a) characterizes the grievance as "another excuse for me to file a lawsuit," (b) states that a federal suit against the same defendant was dismissed, and (c) announces he will therefore "file some fresh paperwork to the state court" — a refiling in a different forum after an adverse federal disposition, announced in advance and on camera. The docket matches it step for step This is a public statement, and this project's evidence-layer separation is doing real work
Why this classification: Recounts that his federal suit against Reddit was dismissed, attributes the dismissal to a 'corrupt federal judge,' and says he will therefore 'file some fresh paperwork to the state court' on the same grievance.
And I'm getting really tired of writing up these lawsuits, but I'm going to be laughing when Reddit's lawyers respond to the lawsuit I file against them because I'm going to know that Reddit probably had to cough up a 20 or $30,000 retainer for these morons trying to make fun of me on a subreddit they made about [me].
A pre-filing announcement with an explicitly stated cost-imposition motive. the case tracker records C020 (Tufano v. Reddit Inc, Lackawanna 2025-06513) and C056 (Tufano v. Reddit, Inc., M.D. Pa. 3:25-cv-01495) as both filed 2025-08-13, six weeks after this video. The stated satisfaction is not a remedy or a judgment but the defendant's legal costs — "Reddit probably had to cough up a 20 or $30,000 retainer." That is a first-person statement about why the suit is worth filing, and it belongs to the same evidence layer as the "lawsuits for a hobby" statement in “Courthouse CLOSED?! Who is Timothy H?!” — a public statement, not a court finding or a research classification.
Why this classification: Says he is tired of writing 'these lawsuits' but anticipates laughing when Reddit has to 'cough up a 20 or $30,000 retainer' to respond — the opponent's cost stated as the satisfaction of filing.
lately over the past few weeks on Reddit people have become aware of how horrifically he botched me and it was really deterring people from cons ING with him so they decided to get this guy who had surgery with him do a bunch of fake up votes on it which you know he has okay results and then they put a bunch of like really positive fake comments at the top of the post
The load-bearing quote of the video. It names Reddit — Reddit, Inc. is a tracked defendant and the subject of its own dispute group, the Reddit litigation — and alleges vote and comment manipulation on a Reddit post about him, orchestrated by "they." This is the platform-manipulation theory stated on a dated record seven months before the 2025 Reddit filings, and it connects the Reddit litigation and the Taban eye-surgery dispute in a single sentence. The antecedent of "they" is never stated — it is not said to be Taban, his staff, his counsel or Reddit itself, and it must not be resolved by assumption. No filing conduct is described.
What a surprise. The anonymous gangstalking Redditors are trying to get me deplatformed again, telling you to report my posts after this forwarding company let $20,000 of my Wagu beef rot in the shipping container. These people are defending the shipping company.
A single sentence that sits across two tracked disputes — the Reddit litigation and the All-Ways wagyu-shipment dispute — and states the causal link he draws between them: that the platform reporting is a response to his complaints about the forwarder. Reddit, Inc. is a tracked defendant. The word "again" is doing real work: C044 (Tufano v. Reddit, Inc., M.D. Pa. 3:24-cv-01114) had been dismissed 2024-12-11, with the final order expressly deeming any appeal frivolous and not taken in good faith, and the Third Circuit appeal (25-1014) was dismissed 2025-03-21 — so at this date the Reddit grievance was already once-litigated and lost. C020 and C056 were then both filed on 2025-08-13, 24 days after this video.
You know who also should be in prison? And I'm not joking. The executives and higherups at these review sites. Whether it's Google or Real Self, even Yelp, all of these plastic surgery review sites and recommendations. Even the moderators on forums like Reddit that have plastic surgery sections.
The transcript names tracked defendants outright rather than by role: two search and review platforms and a forum, which are the defendants in the tracked platform disputes. One platform he names, Yelp, is not a party to any tracked case. The opening word also indicates the clip continues earlier content whose subject cannot be recovered from it.
Why this classification: Names tracked defendants from the transcript rather than the title, but describes no filing, no case and no court, and the accusation concerns the platforms' conduct rather than his own litigation.
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Frank Tufano Litigation Research. "Tufano v. Reddit Inc (2025-06513)". Research last verified September 23, 2026. https://suedbyfranktufano.com/cases/2025-06513-tufano-v-reddit-inc/